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Höhler, S. & Kehrt, C. (2025). Einleitung: Täuschung und Illusion. Technikgeschichte, 92(1), 3-9
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2025 (German)In: Technikgeschichte, ISSN 0040-117X, E-ISSN 2942-3503, Vol. 92, no 1, p. 3-9Article in journal (Other academic) Published
Abstract [de]

Die Zeitschrift Technikgeschichte behandelt das Thema „Täuschung und Illusion“ in Kooperation mit dem Jahrbuch Technikphilosophie (jtphil.nomos.de). Zu diesem Themenfeld erscheinen sowohl im Jahrbuch Technikphilosophie 2025 als auch im vorliegenden Heft Beiträge, um das Thema komplementär aus philosophischer und historischer Perspektive zu betrachten.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2025
Keywords
technology, history of technology, deception, illusion, Technik, Technikgeschichte, Täuschung, Illusion
National Category
Technology and Environmental History
Research subject
History of Science, Technology and Environment
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-363507 (URN)10.5771/0040-117X-2025-1-3 (DOI)
Note

QC 20250519

Available from: 2025-05-17 Created: 2025-05-17 Last updated: 2025-05-19Bibliographically approved
Sörlin, S., Warde, P., Akerman, I., Höglund Hellgren, J., Höhler, S., Isberg, E., . . . Schrøder, T. H. (2025). The great dispersal: The fall and rise of global environmental governance. Ambio, 54
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2025 (English)In: Ambio, ISSN 0044-7447, E-ISSN 1654-7209, Vol. 54Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This article presents a new way of understanding Global Environmental Governance (GEG), historically and functionally. We outline a revised analytical framing, which connects the post-WWII moment of early globalizing conservation with the intensifying attempts to govern the human-earth relationship through an ever-growing assemblage of governable environmental objects and their quantifiable indicators as proxies. Our argument is as follows: (1) GEG has followed a trajectory of dispersal of actors, institutions, conceptual tools and responsibilities from the micro- and local scales to the planetary. We analyze how these trajectories unfold in three essential domains: Earth System science, sovereignty, and neoliberalization. (2) GEG is performative. The governance itself has created the dynamic environmental objects under governance. (3) In this way, GEG has normalized the environment as a policy object.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Springer, 2025
Keywords
Diplomatic history; Earth system science, history; Environmental history; Global environmental governance, history; Global environmental objects
National Category
History Technology and Environmental History Environmental Studies in Social Sciences
Research subject
History of Science, Technology and Environment
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-363051 (URN)10.1007/s13280-025-02177-x (DOI)001480446900001 ()40317417 (PubMedID)2-s2.0-105004019683 (Scopus ID)
Funder
EU, European Research Council, 787516Swedish Research Council, 2022-1167KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Note

QC 20250505

Available from: 2025-05-03 Created: 2025-05-03 Last updated: 2025-06-09Bibliographically approved
Höhler, S. & Kehrt, C. (2024). Sog des Neuen: Narrationen der Technikgeschichte. Technikgeschichte, 91(1), 3-10
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2024 (German)In: Technikgeschichte, ISSN 0040-117X, E-ISSN 2942-3503, Vol. 91, no 1, p. 3-10Article in journal (Other academic) Published
Abstract [de]

Das Neue zieht an. Jede Generation lache über alte Moden, folge aber treu den Neuen, meinte Henry David Thoreau schon Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts zu wissen. Gemäß dem Entwicklungsgedanken von Zivilisationsgeschichte als Geschichte des Fortschritts und der Verbesserung erneuern sich die menschlichen Lebensbedingungen in immer schnelleren Zyklen. Die Begeisterung für technische Modernisierung und Innovation blieb nicht allein den Ingenieurswissenschaften vorbehalten. Historisch haben sich auch Teile der Technikgeschichtsschreibung an der Beschleunigung berauscht und dazu beigetragen, dass Technikentwicklung als innovationsgetrieben erschien. Aber ist das Neue immer notwendig und erstrebenswert? Wie wird der Imperativ des Neuen begründet? Das Themenheft "Sog des Neuen" greift ein klassisches Thema der Technikgeschichte auf, die Analyse und Reflexion des technischen Wandels. Die Beiträge sollen dazu anregen, über Technikentwicklung, Technikzukünfte und Technikfolgen ebenso wie über die Zeitlichkeiten von Technik selbst nachzudenken.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag, 2024
Keywords
pull of the new, innovation, technological modernization, technology futures, Imperativ des Neuen, Innovation, technische Modernisierung, Technikzukünfte
National Category
Technology and Environmental History
Research subject
History of Science, Technology and Environment
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-347270 (URN)10.5771/0040-117X-2024-1-3 (DOI)
Note

QC 20240611

Available from: 2024-06-08 Created: 2024-06-08 Last updated: 2025-02-20Bibliographically approved
Wickberg, A., Lidström, S., Lagerkvist, A., Meyer, T., Wormbs, N., Gärdebo, J., . . . Höhler, S. (2024). The mediated planet: Datafication and the environmental SDGs. Environmental Science and Policy, 153, Article ID 103673.
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2024 (English)In: Environmental Science and Policy, ISSN 1462-9011, E-ISSN 1873-6416, Vol. 153, article id 103673Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Over the past half century, the global environment has become subject to an accelerated pace of mediation and datafication. This ongoing transition has become so comprehensive that the knowledge, management and governance of the Earth system is dependent on enormous flows of data from a “vast machine” of measuring tools. These processes combined have formed what we call a “mediated planet,” subject to interpretation and shared human decision-making – that should ideally be democratic, inclusive and accountable. As environmental datafication continues to accelerate, private corporations are gaining increasing influence on and power over the associated collections of data. This is a cause for concern, as the global environmental commons are a public interest of concern to all people. This article argues for the need to critically research the challenges and risks associated with the rapid datafication of the environment, specifically in relation to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for climate change (13), the ocean (14), biodiversity (15) and inclusive and accountable institutions (16). More knowledge is needed of how the SDGs and their supporting networks influence data-generation on a mediated planet, and how issues of access to and use of environmental data, as well as data ownership and AI implementation, can best be navigated. We contend that such knowledge can help enhance the democratic potential of the SDGs to build public trust and secure broad participation in global environmental governance in ways that also support peaceful and inclusive societies, as promised by SDG 16.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Elsevier BV, 2024
Keywords
DataficationGlobal environmental commonsSDGsAIMediationEnvironmental governance
National Category
History
Research subject
History of Science, Technology and Environment
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-342139 (URN)10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103673 (DOI)001161928800001 ()2-s2.0-85182391452 (Scopus ID)
Note

QC 20240115

Available from: 2024-01-15 Created: 2024-01-15 Last updated: 2024-11-11Bibliographically approved
Höhler, S. (2023). Spaceship Earth: A Review of a Concept. In: Jolanthe Kugler, Scott Longfellow (Ed.), Objective: Earth: Designing Our Planet (pp. 112-125). Lausanne: mudac Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts
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2023 (English)In: Objective: Earth: Designing Our Planet / [ed] Jolanthe Kugler, Scott Longfellow, Lausanne: mudac Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts , 2023, p. 112-125Chapter in book (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
Abstract [en]

In the 1960s, Spaceship Earth expressed a new way of perceiving the Earth as a singular and solitary planet in the universe. Spaceship Earth articulated and inspired an understanding of the planetary environment as a unified system that provided unique and increasingly fragile conditions of life. In spite of being coined in the techno-optimist decade of the Space Race and its high hopes of extending human life to other planets, Spaceship Earth integrated the buoyant science fact and science fiction of spaceflight with a growing sense of global crisis. 

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Lausanne: mudac Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts, 2023
Keywords
spaceflight, planet earth, second genesis, Anthropocene
National Category
Technology and Environmental History
Research subject
History of Science, Technology and Environment
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-340645 (URN)
Note

Part of book ISBN 978-2-37896-450-4

QC 20231212

Available from: 2023-12-10 Created: 2023-12-10 Last updated: 2025-02-11Bibliographically approved
Wickberg, A., Kaklopoulou, E., Ljungberg, E., Johnson, E., Ivarsson, J., Sanches, P., . . . Dignum, V. (2023). To Monitor Is to Manage – Or Not?: Which Data Do We Need to Reach the Environmental Sustainable Development Goals?. WASP-HS Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program - Humanities and Society
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2023 (English)Report (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
Abstract [en]

Artificial intelligence (AI) impacts our journey in reaching the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals in more ways than one. In the WASP-HS report “AI, sustainability and Agenda 2030”, the conclusions from the community reference meeting that took place on October 4, 2023, are presented. The contribution formulates and discusses the following challenges: First, that the desire to make environmental data politically actionable in immediate ways is understandable but requires carefully qualifying the aims. Data circulation accelerates various forms of data use, including commercial and for-profit use. Second, that data accommodates different stakeholder views and opposing interests. The same data sets can support diverging understandings of “sustainability”.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
WASP-HS Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program - Humanities and Society, 2023. p. 10
Series
WASP-HS Community Reference Meeting Reports
Keywords
data, digitalization, digital literacy, environment, quantity, quality
National Category
Technology and Environmental History
Research subject
History of Science, Technology and Environment
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-340646 (URN)
Funder
Swedish Research Council Formas, 2020-00512
Note

QC 20231212

Available from: 2023-12-10 Created: 2023-12-10 Last updated: 2025-02-11Bibliographically approved
Wickberg, A., Kaklopoulou, E., Ljungberg, E., Johnson, E., Ivarsson, J., Sanchez, P., . . . Dignum, V. (2023). WASP-HS. Community Reference Meeting: AI, Sustainability and Agenda 2030. Report. December 2023..
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2023 (English)Report (Other academic)
Keywords
Artificial intelligence; Sustainability; Agenda 2030
National Category
Social Sciences
Research subject
History of Science, Technology and Environment
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-340338 (URN)
Note

QC 20231204

Available from: 2023-12-04 Created: 2023-12-04 Last updated: 2023-12-04Bibliographically approved
Höhler, S. (2022). Die Umwelt wirkt auf uns zurück. NZZ Geschichte, 40, 26-41
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2022 (German)In: NZZ Geschichte, ISSN 2297-2722, Vol. 40, p. 26-41Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.)) Published
Abstract [de]

Was verbindet einen Vulkanausbruch in Indonesien mit einer Hungersnot in Europa? Was hat die Wasserhygiene mit der Ausbreitung von Seuchen zu tun? Umwelt bedeutet, in Zusammenhängen zu denken.

Abstract [en]

What connects a volcanic eruption in Indonesia with a famine in Europe? What does water hygiene have to do with the spread of epidemics? Environment means thinking in context.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Zurich: , 2022
Keywords
environment, history, 19th century, 20th century, Umwelt, Geschichte, 19. Jahrhundert, 20. Jahrhundert
National Category
Technology and Environmental History
Research subject
History of Science, Technology and Environment
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-312900 (URN)
Projects
SPHERE - The Rise of Global Environmental Governance: A History of the Contemporary Human-Earth Relationship
Funder
EU, European Research Council, 787516
Note

QC 20220620

Available from: 2022-05-24 Created: 2022-05-24 Last updated: 2025-02-11Bibliographically approved
Hoehler, S. (2021). Creating the Blue Planet from Modern Oceanography: Creating the Blue Planet from Modern Oceanography. In: Franziska Torma (Ed.), A Cultural History of the Sea in the Global Age: (pp. 21-44). London: Bloomsbury Academic
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2021 (English)In: A Cultural History of the Sea in the Global Age / [ed] Franziska Torma, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021, p. 21-44Chapter in book (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021
Series
The Cultural Histories Series
Keywords
ocean literacy, deep sea research, ocean floor mapping, satellite oceanography, media, history, twentieth century
National Category
History Technology and Environmental History Cultural Studies
Research subject
History of Science, Technology and Environment
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-300099 (URN)
Projects
Formas SDGs: The Mediated Planet: Claiming Data for Environmental SDGsH2020-ERC-2017-ADG: SPHERE Study of the Planetary Human-Environment Relationship: The Rise of Global Environmental Governance
Funder
Swedish Research Council Formas, 2020-00512EU, European Research Council, 787516
Note

Part of book: ISBN 978-1-4742-9909-1, 978-1-4742-9910-7

QC 20210826

Available from: 2021-08-24 Created: 2021-08-24 Last updated: 2025-02-11Bibliographically approved
Höhler, S. (2021). Earth, a technogarden: Planting for the planet in Sweden's first phytotron, 1950 - 1970. Geschichte und Gesellschaft, 46(4), 706-728
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2021 (English)In: Geschichte und Gesellschaft, ISSN 0340-613X, E-ISSN 2196-9000, Vol. 46, no 4, p. 706-728Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This paper studies the new repositories of specimens and knowledge that emerged from Sweden's first “phytotron,” a modern climate laboratory for plant research established in Stockholm in the 1960s. Different aspects and scales of technoscientific plant and crop growth came together under one roof: inhouse trials on the timing and spacing of trees and crops, postwar domestic policies to modernize a largely rural country, and Swedish forest geneticists' expertise in international efforts to improve forest stand and productivity globally. I argue that a scalar analysis of scientific forestry can help identify and assess the historical contingencies and contexts that formed the interventions in planetary order invoked by the Anthropocene. 

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht GmbH and Co. KG, 2021
National Category
Ecology Forest Science Environmental Sciences
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-307223 (URN)10.13109/GEGE.2020.46.4.706 (DOI)2-s2.0-85102710022 (Scopus ID)
Note

Funding details: Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, RJ; Funding details: European Research Council, ERC; Funding details: Horizon 2020 Framework Programme, H2020, 787516; QC 20220118

Available from: 2022-01-18 Created: 2022-01-18 Last updated: 2022-06-25Bibliographically approved
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